Books - A Manifesto
This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects.
Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson''s life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives - from Proust to Jil...
This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects.
Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson''s life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives - from Proust to Jil...
